This post contains spoilers about Stephen King’sItand the film adaptation out in theaters Friday.
“I have an idea,” Beverly said quietly.
In the dark, Bill heard a sound he could not immediately place.
A whispery little sound, but not scary.
Then there was a more easily place sound…a zipper.What?
he thought, and then he realized what.
For some reason, Beverly was undressing.
“The book dealt with childhood and adulthood1958 and Grown Ups.
The grown-ups don’t remember their childhood.
Intuitively, the Losers knew they had to be together again.
The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood.
It’s another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children’s library and the adult library.
Times have changed since I wrote that scene and there is now more sensitivity to those issues.”
